The 21st century is a “green” century, when “green products” will lead the new fashion of textiles and clothing consumption of the world. Advocating the dual functions of external appearance and internal healthiness is a tread of clothing consumption. Linen is known as the “queen of fibre” with “firm, simple, lustrous yet not dazzling, elegant yet not frivolous, providing users a special feeling of firm and pure, soft and natural, bright and beautiful, decent” as its unique characteristic.

The reason why Linen is called green fibre is that every part of it can serve people. Flaxseed oil can be used to produce dyes, paints, cosmetics, soaps and etc. Flaxseeds and flaxseed oil are very healthy food, containing many essential fatty acids, cellulose and minerals for human body. Flax can be made into linen yarns and linen cloth for making clothes. Linen fabric is soft yet strong, durable, easy to wash and has a good hand feel. Linen fabric also has amazing absorbency. Therefore, linen clothes become the best choice for summer wear. Linen products have been widely used in many areas, such as home textiles, decorative materials, art canvas, insulation materials and etc.

Linen textiles are the most potential functional textiles “green product” for development in the 21st century. With its natural essence and unique functions, linen textiles have always been warmly welcomed in the trend of “back to nature, comfortably and healhy”. With the strengthening global environmental awareness and rising “green projects”, in-depth study by scientists on fibre structure and properties of linen as well as the final finishing process, development of functional products and re-understanding of consumers for linen textiles, domestic and foreign markets of linen textiles will experience a substantial development.